Former Indiana Sheriff Sentenced to 15 Years for Corruption

Former southern Indiana Sheriff Jamey Noel was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a judge accepted his plea agreement in Clark County Circuit Court in Jeffersonville, Indiana on Monday.

Special Judge Larry Medlock said Noel will have three years of the sentence suspended to probation and also ordered him to pay $270,000 in fines and more than $3 million in restitution to agencies affected by his activities.

"You've tarnished the badge and failed everyone in law enforcement," Medlock said just before he issued the sentence,

Noel, Clark County's sheriff from 2015-22 and also once led New Chapel EMS in Clark County, was accused of using a business card for personal purchases and having sheriff's office employees work at a barn where he stored a collection of classic cars, among other things. He pleaded guilty to multiple charges of corrupt business influence, theft, tax evasion and official misconduct in August . Four charges of ghost employment were dismissed at that hearing.